Jennifer Lawrence on Beating Amy Schumer at the Golden Globes: “She’ll Be Fine”

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association did something relatively evil with its Golden Globe nominations this year: pit the industry’s most beloved new best friends, Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer, against each other in the best-actress-in-a-comedy category. Despite the friendly competition, Lawrence and Schumer kept their separate red-carpet appearances lighthearted, telling reporters how excited they were to attend their first formal Hollywood function together. And when it came time for the category’s winner to be announced, Lawrence and Schumer had shifted seats inside the Beverly Hilton ballroom so that they were sitting next to each other when the victor, who turned out to be Lawrence, was called.

Afterward, Lawrence made her way backstage to answer questions from press and confirm that there will be no hard feelings between the screenwriting partners.

“She’s going to be fine,” Lawrence said of Schumer, after a journalist asked if she felt bad about besting the Trainwreck star. “It wasn’t a matter of feeling bad because she’s funny and hilarious and will win many things. I just really expected Amy to win. This was very truly surprising for me. I was just really surprised.”

Even though she topped Schumer in Sunday’s awards arena, Lawrence said that she was still most excited to celebrate the evening with the Emmy winner, in addition to her frequent film collaborator David O. Russell. “Now I get all of the attention [from him] because I’m the only one from the [Joy] cast here,” Lawrence said excitedly.

In the weeks leading up to the Golden Globes, Lawrence stoked Internet excitement by teasing that she and Schumer planned to wear the same dress to the ceremony. And the actress maintained that she was serious about the matching outfits, before she foiled her own plan.

“I blew it by talking about it, so then if we did [wear the same ensemble] it was expected. But we just wore our own thing.” After a beat, Lawrence followed up with the reporter who had asked her the clothing question: “I hope you were still satisfied by what we were wearing. . . but it sounds like you weren’t.”

Even though the project for which Lawrence was being heralded at this year’s Golden Globes was different than prior years, the actress’s endearing spitfire attitude remained.

A sheepish reporter, attempting to covertly tape the exchange on his iPhone, couldn’t even get two words of his question out before Lawrence interrupted.

Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt

Given that Pitt and Gosling starred in one of the funniest movies of the year, The Big Short, maybe we should have expected some good jokes from these two. But the last thing we expected from Gosling was for him to cast himself as the uglier half of any duo. “I was told I was presenting alone,” Gosling joked to Pitt. “I’ve been cast in some kind of Joe Biden, Andy Richter, Robin kind of role.”

Aziz Ansari and Prop Comedy

Sure, Jeffrey Tambor didn’t wind up taking home that award; the honor went to Gael Garcia Bernal for Mozart in the Jungle instead. Still Aziz wins for best silent gag of the evening and in a night without Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, its nice to see someone keeping the art of the reaction shot alive.

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio

The former Titanic duo grabbed a quiet moment together during a commercial break. Both actors also took home Globes—him for The Revenant, her for Steve Jobs—18 years after their first awards season together.

Ken Jeong and Kevin Hart

Microphone comedy is an awards show staple but few presenters have pulled it off with quite this much aplomb.

Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis

Wilde wound up presenting with a Sudeikis doppelganger: bearded John Krasinski. But the new parents were pretty cute during their red carpet interviews especially when he revealed maroon sports socks to match her dress.

Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt

Given that Pitt and Gosling starred in one of the funniest movies of the year, The Big Short, maybe we should have expected some good jokes from these two. But the last thing we expected from Gosling was for him to cast himself as the uglier half of any duo. “I was told I was presenting alone,” Gosling joked to Pitt. “I’ve been cast in some kind of Joe Biden, Andy Richter, Robin kind of role.”

Aziz Ansari and Prop Comedy

Sure, Jeffrey Tambor didn’t wind up taking home that award; the honor went to Gael Garcia Bernal for Mozart in the Jungle instead. Still Aziz wins for best silent gag of the evening and in a night without Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, its nice to see someone keeping the art of the reaction shot alive.

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio

The former Titanic duo grabbed a quiet moment together during a commercial break. Both actors also took home Globes—him for The Revenant, her for Steve Jobs—18 years after their first awards season together.

Ricky Gervais and Mel Gibson

The unlikeliest pair of the evening somehow managed to pull off one of the evening’s funniest moments. Calling back to Gibson’s infamous 2006 drunk driving arrest, Gervais dropped the phrase “sugar tits” just loud enough so that it made it on mic. The host ended the evening with another reference to Gibson’s famously anti-Semitic rants. “From me and Mel Gibson,” he said as the camera cut to credits, ”Shalom.”

Mark Whalberg and Will Ferrell

The goofy glasses thing seems like something Amy Poehler would do, doesn’t it? In fact she has done almost exactly that. Any reminder of Poehler is aces in our books.

Oscar Isaac and Mark Ruffalo

Sure, it’s just a passing greeting, but much more has been made out of much, much less. Let us have this.

Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney

This couple alreadymade headlines over the weekend thanks to a salacious magazine shoot. But Kinney got the chance to support his fiancé as she took home a surprise win for American Horror Story. Sure, Gaga forgot to thank him in her acceptance speech, but odds are she’ll make up for it later.

Ken Jeong and Kevin Hart

Microphone comedy is an awards show staple but few presenters have pulled it off with quite this much aplomb.

Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis

Wilde wound up presenting with a Sudeikis doppelganger: bearded John Krasinski. But the new parents were pretty cute during their red carpet interviews especially when he revealed maroon sports socks to match her dress.